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The Dan Bongino Show

Dan Bongino discusses the Butler, PA assassination attempt, FBI Director Kash Patel's controversial Hill hearing, and emerging AI policy dev

Key takeaways

• Rebuilding public faith in institutions is essential for functional governance.

Main topics

• Butler, PA assassination attempt

Notable quotes

We must rebuild some semblance of faith, semblance of faith in institutions. We have to, or there's no sense having a government at all.

Conclusion

Bongino calls for renewed trust in institutions, urging transparency a

Transcript preview

Speaker 6 (0:02) All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and Speaker 1 (0:07) get ready for The Dan Bongino Show. Speaker 8 (0:10) You know, we have a lot of kind of inside jokes on the show, but given that you're part of my extended family, and I genuinely feel that way, you know, with the live chat. which is a relatively new technology. I mean, 30, 40 years ago in radio to join the show, you had to call a call Speaker 1 (0:27) screener. You had to get through. It was probably a one in 10,000 chance you'd get to talk to the host. That's not the case now with the live chat Speaker 3 (0:35) between like Lynn and Jeff and B-Ray this morning and the McGroin crew. I feel like I know you all already. So Speaker 1 (0:43) I don't like keeping jokes inside. So I'm sitting here, you know, we get ready to go live in the show. And Speaker 8 (0:50) obviously I'm sitting at the desk and Guy walks back in because it's definitely not the sunshine state today. It's raining. Everybody's like looking at the weather. It's hope there's not like a explosion or power outage this morning. The weather's crazy bad and Guy's like, don't be nervous. And he may say, well, what's so funny about that? It's not funny. It's an inside joke. When I was, when I first went back on radio, when we tragically lost Rush Limbaugh and I took over on some stations in that slot. a local radio host at a station we were launching on, they call and it's like two minutes before this interview on the radio station about this big launch. And the lady's like, don't be nervous. I'm like, okay, Speaker 3 (1:29) thanks. I've only been doing this for a decade, but I'll try. Guy does that every time. So if you ever had a live show and you see Guy and he says that, he doesn't really mean that. That's what he's talking about. The Speaker 1 (1:42) weather's horrendous today. It's a sunshine state. It's not called the doom and gloom cloud state. Look like I can clear it up a little bit, though. So this is a live show. Let's hope we don't have any apocalyptic electricity meltdown, all right? I got a lot to get to today, folks. Speaker 8 (1:58) We're going to talk about some really serious stuff in the beginning of the show because I've been out of the government for a bit now. I've been out of the government for, what is it, close to six months. But I need to clear something up with you, and it's really important, very important. And we're going to have a sober, reasoned conversation about what turned into a big news story yesterday. I think it's important you hear from me on this, too. So stay tuned. We got a lot to discuss. And Speaker 1 (2:29) Justin was kind enough on a slightly less serious note to put together a wonderful array of clown Democrats, of course. Why are they always dancing Speaker 3 (2:42) and singing? Why? They're not even good at it. Speaker 1 (2:47) They're not even good. 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We, this is not optional, by the way. We must, capital M-U-S-T, must. Speaker 8 (5:50) rebuild some semblance of faith, semblance of faith in institutions. We have to, or there's no sense having a government at all. Speaker 1 (6:00) Can we agree on that? If the government we elect, no matter what, Republican, Democrat, liberal, progressive, conservative, MAGA, libertarian, if the government we elect, Speaker 3 (6:12) nobody has faith in anyone or anything at any time. Can we agree on this? Can we stipulate the point that there's no purpose to government at all? Speaker 3 (6:23) There's none. I mean, what's the point? If nobody believes anything they do is in any way going to benefit anyone and everyone all the time is lying, then I think we can all agree that there's no purpose to government whatsoever. So if we Speaker 1 (6:37) can't rebuild some semblance of faith in institutions, our military, law enforcement, Speaker 3 (6:45) things that, you know, are life and death decisions, then having a government at all is a waste of time. Speaker 5 (6:53) There's no purpose to it. I Speaker 1 (6:57) understand why people are skeptical out there. Contrary to what the Bongino derangement syndrome crowd out there that is a boiling bunny obsessed with every single thing. It's bizarre. It's really weird. We see it all day. We see it all day. Jasmine will be like, well, I'm like, I don't know, man. It's some kind of a virus. Some people caught contrary to what they may tell you. I get it. I get it. I totally get and appreciate your skepticism of government in general. And a degree of skepticism is healthy and not only healthy, but necessary. Never take at face value. Trust me, bro politics. Okay. Ever. I don't care who it is. However, I'm not a monarch. I was not a monarch when I was in the government. I was at the second level. I wasn't even in charge of the place at the top. I can only do what I can do. And anyone suggesting to you, notice they'll never cite any evidence because there's been multiple articles, even from people who hate me in the left-wing media, people at the New York Times and elsewhere. There's been multiple articles about, from people in the White House acknowledging, yes, Dan was the transparency guy. You can look him up yourself. I've already showed him on the show. Like I said, I'm never going to over-explain. If you want to hear the explanation, it's there for you. The BDS people don't care anyway. They're just going to lie about it. Nobody questions that. But I was not a monarch. I can't do these things alone. I can't just mass declassify stuff, hold an individual press conference, go, it's a damn Bogino presser we're Speaker 3 (8:45) going Speaker 1 (8:45) to do. I don't have the power to do that. Speaker 1 (8:51) If someone knows something about the Butler case that they feel hasn't been appropriately investigated, maybe it came up in the last six months and I'm gone. I don't know that. So I have a suggestion, because if we don't reestablish faith and get all of it out there in the interest of transparency for you, because it's your government, it's your government. Speaker 1 (9:19) Here's a Fox News article from yesterday about, you know, you saw all the media and and X posts bombshell new evidence. Speaker 3 (9:29) You saw this headline over and over. Now, folks, again, I just want to use reason and logic. Speaker 1 (9:39) Once you get past the ex-culture of clickbait headlines, you realize, according to this Fox News article, and cable news did this too yesterday, that the records that came out about Butler Speaker 3 (9:52) were turned over to Senator Grassley in March. Speaker 5 (9:57) You can see it right there. I Speaker 3 (10:04) don't know what to tell you. If something new has surfaced since then, I'm not inside anymore. That I can't tell you. However, maybe it did. So I have a proposal. Because your Speaker 5 (10:19) faith in institutions is all that matters. If you don't have faith that the people in charge at any point, Trump, Bush, Obama, Biden, Reagan, Lincoln, Washington, Monroe, if you don't trust any of them, then there's no point. So I've got a proposal. For Butler. Speaker 3 (10:39) I think we should, there should be an independent commission appointed. I think they should review everything. It shouldn't be anyone from the FBI, from Speaker 1 (10:52) the CIA, from any three-letter agency. Get a respected outside, maybe a guy, I'm just throwing a name out there, like a Rudy Giuliani type or a Bill Bratton who was the police chief in New York. A guy with no attachment to any of these entities that has no reason to kind of like whatever, fudge the numbers or whatever some people may think is going on. And review everything. Speaker 3 (11:20) Review everything. I think it's the only way at this point, because I understand and sympathize with your skepticism. Or else I wouldn't be recommending it, correct? If I thought there was some big malfeasance that cash and I wouldn't say, hey, let's have an independent commission look into it. That'd be kind of stupid. So one, I think we should do an independent commission. And you know what? While we're at it, I think we should do it not only on Butler, which would have, well, did change the course of history, but God forbid a millimeter to the left, we would have, we wouldn't have this great two years of President Trump because it would have been no President Trump. I think we should look at all of it. West Palm Beach, that one as well. Independent commission. And folks, I hate this expression because it's kind of gross sometimes, but go full like open kimono. Speaker 5 (12:08) See it all. It's Speaker 3 (12:12) the only way. It's the only way. Second, I think when the independent commission, kind of Speaker 1 (12:20) like a 9-11 commission, where they put together, you can actually read the 9-11 report. Still, it's like this thick. You can buy it on Amazon. There should be a book, binder, whatever, of all the results that everybody can go and read, journalists and everyone else. There should be a massive effort to declassify whatever's still classified because I don't know what's still classified or not that may have served. I haven't been there for six months. But second, There should be some Speaker 3 (12:47) congressional hearings after that where both sides of the aisle ask every single question they want. If it has to go on for six months, let it go on for six months. Because Speaker 5 (12:57) if the public doesn't believe anything, there's no purpose to the government. There's no purpose to the government at all. Speaker 3 (13:09) Always love when the jacket's spicy. See, this is what the BDS people hate. They can't believe it because they want you to believe that there's like a cabal of people on the inside that you voted for that have magically turned, magically turned. They can't get over it. They have nothing to say to this. They're like, well, I don't know. What are you going to deny? No, no, we don't want an independent commission or congressional. I thought that's what you wanted. Speaker 5 (13:34) Finally, when it's all over and we get an independent commission, people not connected to the FBI, CIA, IBF, WXYZ, whatever. And they have the congressional hearings where everybody gets to ask everything. Democrats, Republicans, fake independents. Speaker 3 (13:56) I think there should be a press conference. It should be like, what do you think, fellas? Like 40 hours long? It should go on where every single Speaker 5 (14:04) question you have is fair game. Now you've got the Congressional Hearings, an independent commission, and you've got reporters, and I think citizen journalists should be invited too. Nick Shirley, James O'Keefe, Higby, and Speaker 3 (14:20) they should ask whatever question they want. And it should go on until, I'm exaggerating, the 40 hours, of course. However, I'm not kidding when I say make it three hours. Make it eight hours. Do it the next day Speaker 5 (14:32) again. Ask every question until finally at the end you're like, Anyone else? Any more questions? No, Speaker 3 (14:40) I'm good. What's the argument? Even from the BDS folks and the bot army, the bot army that loves to raid the chats every morning. It's like a dude in a room with 100 cell phones. The dude, what's Speaker 5 (14:58) your beef? I thought this was what you wanted. Speaker 5 (15:03) weird if there was something to hide and the people you bizarrely, you can just make it a story, think you're hiding it, are asking for this act of almost unprecedented transparency. So that's my proposal. What do you think, Justin? You good? You like? If you have any beefs, let us know in the chat. I'd love to hear it. Review everything that was done. Speaker 8 (15:31) We'll see. That's just me. I'm a transparency guy. You can look that up, you know. They never cite any resources on Speaker 1 (15:40) any of this stuff, the BDS folks. Did you notice that? Because when they do, and other folks who were supporters of mine send back like, New York Times are no less. Like, people don't even like me. Like, yeah, they've got to begrudgingly admit Dan was the transparency guy. You never Speaker 3 (15:54) hear a response. You never hear a response. It's crazy. Speaker 1 (16:00) All right. So there we go on that one. I got a three point plan. Let's see what happens. It seems to be the only way at this point. Now, on a lighter note, ladies and gentlemen, we've got a lot going on. I want to talk yesterday about that fireworks up on Capitol Hill. I want to talk about probably the best paragraph I've seen on the AI controversy going on now. It's really simple. It relates to a plane on autopilot. The guy summed it up, the author of the piece, so simply, I can't believe no one else has written this. I got that. I got a lot to get to. However, I did want to play for you this because, folks, we're in a really critical time. I just told you we got so much going on. Every day is a crazy new news cycle about everything from Treasury yields to the economy to GDP to AI to Iran to Speaker 3 (16:47) Russia to Ukraine to China to Taiwan. It's a crazy news cycle. Do you want these people in charge after the midterms? Because I was on Laura Ingraham's show on Fox last night, and I'm like, I cannot believe that this party, The Democrats, I'm not telling you guys again not to have fun once in a while or anything, but this is the Democrat. All they ever do is dance and sing and dance and sing, and they never give you anything of substance to actually vote on. Justin was kind enough to put this together. Here's about a minute on the Dems. They just can't stop dancing. Check this out. Speaker 1 (17:22) There's Stephen, was it Colbert? And Chuck Schumer. Oh, Speaker 3 (17:25) you're my favorite. Justin Pearson. Look at it. You missed a wife though. Tom Steyer. Tom Steyer boogieing a Speaker 1 (17:32) little bit. There we go. Those hips are about as stiff as a freaking fire hydrant. Kamala Harris actually looks like she's got a little bit of rhythm. I don't know what Brandon Johnson's doing. At some point during this video, he pulls the robot again and the ass slapper, which I didn't know was a thing for politicians. There's Pearson. Busting his knees up again in leather-soled shoes. There we go, Speaker 3 (17:52) the Speaker 1 (17:52) robot. Oh, there's the S-slapper.